While capacity planning involves making sound decisions about the number of CPUs, it also involves balancing the CPU information with the amount of memory and disk storage purchased for each system.
But as with any capacity planning endeavor, you need a baseline.
You can use the results of our tests to help you with capacity planning and for optimizing the servers in your own environment.
You may also need to do some capacity planning with them because the extraction needs of your DW could overly stress the legacy data source, thereby requiring upgrades.
